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May 02, 2002
Richard Armey Supports Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
By Ahmed Amr.
Editor
Representative Richard Armey, the House Majority Leader, a Texas Republican
whose views are usually aligned with the White House, is publicly calling for the
ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Appearing as a guest on MSNBC's HardBall with
Chris Matthews, he repeatedly emphasized that his solution to the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict was to forcibly remove the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. He
suggested that they can be moved to a state carved out of neighboring Arab
countries. Chris Matthews pressed him on the point to be sure that Armey had no
wiggle room for later retraction. The full transcript of the show is a must read for
any
citizen concerned about the lunatic fringe who rule the roost in Congress.
Armey's views are now considered polite conversation in Washington. Tom DeLay,
the Majority Whip, publicly shares the same views. While the Israel Firsters in
congress usually make an effort to hide their expultionist agenda, they have long
made common cause with extremist right wing Likudniks. A week short of Sharon's
visit to the White House, they are making a point of publicly contesting the 'official'
Bush administration position advocating a two state solution.
Expulsion of a native people from their homeland is an international war crime. It is
the same international war crime that the Serbs attempted in Kosovo. The Serb
engineers behind that chapter of 'social experimentation' are now facing criminal
charges in the Hague. Perhaps the State Department should brief House members
on the 'chain of command' concept.
America will not soon cleanse its House of the ethnic cleansers who make no bones
about rallying around a serial war criminal like Sharon. Whatever the personal
temperament of the President on this issue, he cannot avoid but cave in to the
advice of the Republican leadership in the House, especially when so many 'liberal'
Democrats like Tom Lantos of California are on the same wagon.
Armey's bigotry is appalling but all too common in the halls of Congress. When it
comes to Palestinian bashing, there is no place on earth as tolerant to the repression
of the Palestinians as the House. It is good for campaign donations. Besides, the
open appeal to bigots is as American as apple pie.
It is not as if the Israeli expultionist and their Jewish Lobby advocates need any
convincing on the matter of 'transporting' the Palestinians. I am sure Armey and his
pals will try to work out contract arrangements with Grey Hound, Amtrak or the IDF.
Armey's racist views are shared by half the Israeli public, according to a recent
survey by the Jaffe Institute for Strategic Studies. So, there is a real danger that
Israelis will take such Congressional backing as a green light to submit to their
darkest political fantasies.
Armey is but one of hundreds of Congressmen and Senators who would condemn
the Palestinians to suffer a second Nakba. These wicked anti-Palestinian vibes are
standard fare among a political class that constantly clamors to get attention from a
very generous Israeli Lobby. In all fairness, it should be noted that many Israelis are
quite disgusted by Armey's views and understand that his hate for the Palestinians
does not automatically translate into love for Israelis or Jews. For folks like Armey
and Tom DeLay, the expulsion of the Palestinians translates into a divine sign that
the 'end is near.' Its a Bible belt thing you need to understand. By their estimation,
sparing the Palestinians from the brutal Israeli rod would just postpone Armageddon.
Now, who would want to delay a thing like that?
In what has to be one of the major journalistic scoops of 2002, Chris Matthews made
sure that Armey repeated his demonic views over and over again. The full transcript
of this show is a must read for every American, every Palestinian, every Israeli, every
Arab, every European, every Jew, every Christian, every Muslim, every Texan and
every person of color. It is an essential document that will help explain the riddle of
America's anti-Palestinian policies. Every decent human being on the planet
concerned with issues of peace and justice should know the wicked heart of Richard
Armey and his willing collaborators on the hill.
I am no rocket scientist. But, I bet not a single Congressman or Senator will call this
bigot to the floor. And the ugly reason is that our governors are quite comfortable
with the idea of 'transferring' the Palestinians from the last patch of Palestine they
can claim for a homeland. I bet the New York Times and The Washington Post will
pretend they didn't hear what Richard Armey said to Chris Matthews. I can guarantee
that our 'liberal' media will not make an issue of his racist plan for disposing of
three
million Palestinian 'problems'. I bet in private conversation, the Texan Armey
brigades whisper about expelling Mexican-Americans and sending Arab-Americans
and African-Americans 'back where they came from.' If Armey is so comfortable with
advocating the expulsion of the Palestinian natives of the Holy Land, I am sure he
would lose no sleep over throwing out Asian Americans from these United States.
Scratch a bigot on foreign policy and you will find a foul-mouthed bigot of a very
domestic variety.
There is no cure for what ails the heart of the majority leader of the House or his
fellow travelers. But the world and the Palestinians must be made aware that
American policy towards the Palestinians is not cut out of clean cloth. It comes from
the dark hearts of men who wish to inflict even greater evils on the Palestinians.
Learn Armey's words by heart and you will know the heart of Congress. It would be a
mistake to confuse it with the heart of America. But it would be a fatal mistake to
ignore that men like Armey are very much involved in engineering a 'future for the
Palestinians'. If you thought Sharon was an extremist, get to know Richard Armey,
America's very own Likudnik. Here is just part of Richard Armey's exchange with
Chris Matthews on HardBall (May 1, 2002):
The exchange between Matthews and Armey started out innocently enough on why a
House resolution was needed to support Israel, when America was supposedly trying
to be an evenhanded third party. Armey responded that it was necessary because
the Congress had a 'moral obligation' to 'the safety, security and freedom of Israel.'
It
was the standard endorsement of Sharon's war crimes that is now quite the fashion
on the hill. It is no secret that the Republican party is making a major play for a
permanent realignment of American Jewish support and the Democrats are
desperately worried about losing major financial backers from the Jewish Lobby. No
indecent American politician is going to let the repression of the Palestinians get in
the way of properly financing their war chests.
Matthews went on to ask Armey if he supported the idea of a Palestinian State
besides Israel. Armey's initial evasive response was that he was 'content' to have a
Palestinian State 'near Israel.' So Matthews pressed the point and asked him bluntly
"Where are you going to put the Palestinian State? in Norway?". Armey's response
was that the Arab states have hundreds of thousands of acres of "land and soil and
property" and went on to state that Israel should "occupy and hold the land it has at
this moment." In affirmation of views earlier expressed by Rep. DeLay, another
Republican Texan power player, he allowed that he was "content to have Israel grab
the entire West Bank." Sharon has deliberately sabotaged the Oslo accords to annex
half the West Bank, but Armey has a more vicious design. Complete annexation and
full expulsion. A 'final solution' for the Palestinians, courtesy of the House.
Armey had this bit of logic to impart to his MSNBC audience: "Most of the people
who now populate Israel were transported from all over the world and made it their
home. The Palestinians can do the same." So, according to Armey, the original sin of
exiling the Palestinians in 1948 is a good enough reason to conduct another round of
ethnic cleansing.
Chris Matthews asked Richard Armey, point blank, if he thought the Palestinians
should be 'kicked out.' Armey responded that, the Palestinians, who Armey refers to
as "those people" and "the aggressors," should be "retired to some other Arena." His
advice to the neighboring Arab states is to "get together, find some land and make a
home for the Palestinians. I think it can be done." Just like Milosovic thought it
"could
be done".
Chris Matthews wanted to make sure he heard Armey correctly and asked him "So,
you think the Palestinians should get up and go and leave Palestine? Have you
talked about this to the President?". And Armey's response was "I am telling him
now." Earlier in the day, Armey had a breakfast meeting with Bush to discuss this
very matter. If the President doesn't bother to respond to Armey and Tom DeLay, bet
your last dollar he is willing to accommodate their 'vision' for a Palestinian state.
Matthews went to great lengths to give Armey an opportunity for retreat. He asked
him pretty much the same question, a dozen times, and got pretty much the same
answer. But just to nail down the point he asked him "Just to repeat, you believe that
the Palestinians who are now living on the West Bank should get out of there?"
Armey's response was an emphatic "Yes."
One can have a more intelligent discourse on the subject with a tree stub, but that is
not the point. Armey's vicious plans for the Palestinians are shared by a majority of
his party, a majority of the Democrats, as well as by many in the 'mainstream' media.
This reality will not change anytime soon. It is time for both the American public and
the world community, especially the Europeans and the Arabs, to realize that
America's governors are only capable of obstructing a resolution of the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict. When two major American politicians, from the
President's party, after a breakfast party with the President, come out and publicly
endorse the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. When the American government
gives a green light to yet another Israeli invasion and allows Sharon to defy a United
Nations resolution to investigate war crimes in Jenin. When Netenyahu can stroll up
to the Hill and command more attention than the President. When campaign
financing comes at the cost of endorsing the mass expulsion of the native people of
the Holy Land. When these things are done and said out in the open, while the
Church of the Nativity burns. When America frets about Le Pen's dismal chances in
France but does not concern itself with a horde of Le Pens in Washington. We got
troubles right here in these United States, right here in our very own Congress. This
coming election, let us resolve to clean our own House of ethnic cleansers.
Before the Palestinians negotiate with Israel, they should first negotiate a firm anti-
expulsion treaty with the United States and insist that it be ratified by Congress. If
America cannot commit to a Palestinian right of return, it must, at the very minimum,
make an ironclad commitment to the right of the Palestinians to remain in the West
Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Expulsionist like Armey need to be constrained
before they make all Americans complicit in a crime against humanity.
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